Darius with Riven
How to Synergize Darius and Riven
based on 489 Darius with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Darius Riven Synergy Summary
Best Darius vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Darius and Riven
Tips for Playing as Darius with Riven
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Advice to Understand How Riven Will Play
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Darius Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Darius in LoL
The Darius Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Darius sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Riven. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Riven helps Darius perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Darius is paired with Riven, he observes a small decrease in his total damage output. This may demonstrate that Riven doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Darius is played alongside Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Riven.
Moreover, when Darius plays with Riven on the same side, he typically takes more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Riven does a poor job of covering Darius during teamfights.
Synergies between Darius and Riven
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Is Darius better when played alongside Riven?
There is no perfect synergy for Darius that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Riven is a relatively poor ally for Darius. By locking into the same side as Darius, she decreases their win rate by -2.2% to 47.0%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Darius and Riven that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Riven has a much greater difficulty compared to Darius. That means you should be careful when enlisting Riven allies to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working alongside, Darius players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Darius and Riven together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of magic damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Riven ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Darius in order to work well with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to build first in your Darius and Riven synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Darius included at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Riven than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Darius boasted an average winrate of 47.0% helping carry Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Darius players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Darius and Riven pairings, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.0% winrate overall.
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